After Chapman had published his translation of the Iliad, he turned his attention to the Odyssey; and, as in the case of the Iliad, he went to press with half of it first, Butter being the publisher. The volume ends with the words "Finis duodecimi libri Hom. Odyſſ. Opus nouem dierum," and begins with one of the most charming and perfect title-pages of the period, the greater pity therefore that it is unsigned. Its composition shows the poet in the midst of a company of laurel-crowned spirits, whose ethereal forms are expressed in stipple, with legends which read: "Solus ſapit hic homo, Reliqui vero," and "Umbræ mouentur." Above, the title is supported by two cupids, and below are seated figures of Athena, and Ulysses with his dog. The whole plate was very delicately drawn. The remaining twelve books having been finished, we find Butter entering the whole twenty-four for copyright, November 2, 1614; and, although the volume is not dated, it was probably issued soon afterward. The title reads: _Homer's Odysses. Tranſlated according to y^e Greeke. By George Chapman At Miki q^d viuo detraxerit. Inuida Turba Post obitum duplici foenore reddet Honos. Imprinted at London by Rich: Field, for Nathaniell Butter._ The same engraved title-page was used, but its fine lines had now grown fainter, the stippled shades seeming to justify the statement in the inscription. The dedication to the Earl of Somerset, as it appeared with the first twelve books, was somewhat altered in the opening lines, necessitating the resetting of the first page and the consequent change of the head-band and initial letter; but the rest of the first half is precisely the same as in the first issue. The words "Finis," etc., were dropped from the end, in some copies, and a blank leaf marks the division of the first half from the last.